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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A money grab or the soccer industrial complex. Parents just get caught up in the nonsense. At any age group, you have 20+ quality teams between Richmond and Baltimore. If you take the ECNL/DA teams and add DI of EDP and the top teams in NCSL DI, CCL and VPL, you will have a very competitive league without the need to travel by plane to games.
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Agreed.  If I were king, I might expand a bit to 30 teams, establish two tiers with pro/rel.[/quote]

Why not just include all the teams and have many tiers, like the British system?[/quote]

How much does it cost a British family to put their kid on a youth soccer team?  I am guessing it is a small fraction of what it is here and there is your answer.[/quote]

Why is that an answer?  Have a league like NCSL, where fees are relatively low. Every team that wants to enter can enter.  Like current NCSL but with many more divisions to accommodate more teams. It will never happen, because the big clubs wouldn’t be able to command as much money, but it would be the best idea. [/quote]

The sad thing is that we had this basic set up 10 years ago, though with NCSL for boys and WAGS for girls. There were tons of divisions in both and NCSL had a pure pro-rel set up from spring of U11 onward. It was a huge deal to win NCSL division 1 and the rivalries among the teams were incredible. There was so much intensity that came with trying to move up or avoid relegation.

It's so clear in retrospect how everything went awry, and it is especially infuriating given that almost all of the people involved work for not-for-profit clubs that are supposed to be helping their communities. [/quote]

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